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copy/paste of large amount of text to terminal leads to scrambled/missing characters

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I work with TextMate and R over the terminal. When pasting a lot of code (CMD+C/CMD+V, e.g. 60 lines) it sometimes happens that few characters in the code are scrambled, which then leads to error messages and wrong code execution. For example: > col col onlyDF is turning into > oalyDF These character-replacements seem very random and it is difficult to predict when it happens. The problem is also described here for iterm2: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/3160 The explanation provided there is that it is a bug in bash that can lead to buffered input to get lost due to paste speed. Has anyone experienced these problems and found a work-around for the native terminal app in Mac OS? (e.g. by modifying the paste speed, if that is possible in terminal)
Asked by grueb (71 rep)
Feb 3, 2018, 04:58 PM
Last activity: Oct 27, 2018, 08:54 PM